Re: is it kosher for pre-commit to change what's staged?

From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 10, 2010, 22:17 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <20101110204542.GA11201@gnu.kitenet.net>

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> wrote:

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> That said, since git commit stages the whole large file into the index,
> which is the kind of expensive operation git-annex exists to avoid,
> it's still not very practical to intercept the commit like that. What
> I ideally need is a hook that is run before git commit stages anything.

Then maybe you should look at git smudge&clean filters. They perform conversation between the working tree and the index. Though I am not sure how well they work with big files.

Dmitry